[DietmaR]

Where is possible buy q15 in Europe or only Hifigo China?

I saw it at the Fiio Europe shop .

https://fiio.eu/product/dac-and-headphone-amplifier-q15

Unfortunately not a single shop in Germany has it yet.

 

[Chieffred]

Where is possible buy q15 in Europe or only Hifigo China?

Personally bought it from fiio store on aliexpress

 

[FiiO Willson]

Thank you for waiting, after a lot of hard work by our team, Q15 is finally ready to ship properly!

Soon you will be able to buy it from your local agent!

If you can't wait, you can buy it from aliexpress or other online stores where you can buy it.

 

[neobandog1]

I will wait for local store i like buy it from Germany store hifi-passion.de i wait for that seller to avoid buying it from China for warranty purposes

 

[emilsoft]

Where is possible buy q15 in Europe or only Hifigo China?

I bought it from Fiio's Aliexpress store last week, but it still hasn't shipped. Not sure how long it takes door to door - but probably still faster than waiting to buy locally

 

[jonmbarlow]

Mine has just arrived in the UK, should have it in a couple of days!

 

[neobandog1]

I will wait locally..but only this month is max waiting from me other that I will order it on hifigo

 

[emilsoft]

Mine has just arrived in the UK, should have it in a couple of days!

get ready for a lovely VAT tax slapped on top.. if you bough during 11.11 sale i might offset the pain a bit

 

[jonmbarlow]

get ready for a lovely VAT tax slapped on top.. if you bough during 11.11 sale i might offset the pain a bit

Nope, all taken care of their end

 

[Chieffred]

Nope, all taken care of their end

Hi Same for France

 

[emilsoft]

Nope, all taken care of their end

I didn't know they can do this - so any fees incurred in UK, Fiio will pay on top?

 

[jonmbarlow]

I didn't know they can do this - so any fees incurred in UK, Fiio will pay on top?

From HifiGo, they sort it on purchases over £300

 

[emilsoft]

From HifiGo, they sort it on purchases over £300

I didn't know HifiGo did this, brilliant.

 

[emilsoft]

From few reviews i've read online seems the Q15 sounds organic/analogue - which is a departure from Fiio's analytical and straight laced sound of before.. on the other hand Fiio typically don't infuse a specific sound coloration to their DAPs like Shanling do, from my experience they put the best components they can for the price but without doing lot of tuning, I assume in this instance they let the AKM dac do it's own thing which may be a more organic/analogue sound compared to before Sabre+THX which was more analytical/fast sound.

I look forward to comparing it against Sony WM1AM2 (which has a killer sound), Mojo 2 and desktop dacs (such as RME ADI2 fs ) - my expectations are quite high, with the quality DAC implementation expect it to be a giant slayer. I only wish I had more than 3 custom EQ settings - I have more than 3 headphones.

@FiiO for the line out functionality - is it true line out bypassing the headamps or is it going through them?


* I'm very pleased that Fiio seems to be standardising their DSP platform for these devices, with proper global EQ. I hope they release this DSP on all their future devices and continue the good work on it to refine (like getting more custom profiles, different PEQ filters) and other DSP goodies much like Qudelix. I'm disappointed not many are doing this in the headgame - Shanling, Cayin, Ifi - take note, you're already running late.

 

[Chieffred]

@FiiO for the line out functionality - is it true line out bypassing the headamps or is it going through them?

From what we can see in the diagram seems that the gain/amplification section can be bypassed maybe designed specifically for line out ? to be confirmed by @FiiO Willson ?